Valentine's Exile (Vampire Earth Series #5) Book

Taking up shortly after the events of the last book Valentine's Rising, wherein we saw David Valentine play a major role in saving the Southern Command from the Kurians in this post-apocalyptic/post-alien-invasion series, I expected this 5th book to find him finally reaping some rewards from his leadership under extremely difficult conditions. But not so. Instead he finds himself screwed over once again and on the run.

This series is certainly unpredictable. This novel is more of a "journey" book as Valentine makes his way northward through Kentucky and into Ohio, an area occupied by the enemy, where Valentine discovers that life isn't necessarily all that bad under their leadership. He has faced so many foes on his own side that he begins to question why he is fighting the Kurian Order at all. The ending was a complete surprise and would seem to throw the rest of the series in a whole new direction.